He Faked His Death To Get His Gratuity

Omo, we are just always saying that all these bosses are wicked o.

Some employees too are very silly. One showed my company a shege I can never forget.

This happened in 2025 at the manufacturing company where I worked in Ogun State. One of our senior supervisors a quiet family man pulled off something that still leaves everyone shocked till today.

The guy had spent 18 years in the company. He was always complaining about chest pain and how management delayed everything, promotions, allowances, even medical reimbursements.

Then one morning we got the terrible news that he had died in his sleep. The whole office was thrown into mourning.

MD himself came for the condolence visit. They promised the widow full gratuity, group life insurance, and pension benefits to support the family.

We all felt it was the least they could do after so many years of service. My company even provided tents, company produce and cash support for his burial.

For weeks after the burial, the widow kept coming to HR, crying and begging them to process the payment fast because of school fees and rent.

After about six weeks, they had disbursed it to her. I don’t know specifically how much but I heard it was over 20 million naira

Everyone was happy for the family. Some people even said the man’s death finally forced the company to do the right thing

Then the strange sightings started.

First, a colleague who travelled to Ibadan for the December holiday swore he saw the “dead” man in a market. We laughed and said grief was playing tricks.

But three months later, our company driver who went to deliver goods in Ghana sent a video. The man in the video looked exactly like our former colleague, just healthier, with a fresh haircut and beard, relaxing in Accra.

It did us like film.

The company did some diggings and the full truth later exploded.

The man had planned everything with his wife for over a year. Fake death certificate, everything.

While we were mourning and contributing money, he had already crossed over to Ghana with a new identity.

The wife collected the full gratuity and insurance, waited for things to calm down, then joined him with some of the children.

Till now, they are still trying to find him but baba don japa to only God know where.

I won’t lie I can never do what he did because of money o but the whole thing makes me question that thing of waiting for an employee’s death before you give them reasonable benefits or where did my company suddenly get over 20million naira (as I heard) from since they couldn’t even afford to pay him up to a million naira monthly when he was an employee?

That incident changed how the company handles death benefits now sha.

If they don’t see the dead body in the ground like this, no after death benefit o. This remains one of the wildest things I’ve witnessed in my career…Omo Naija corporate no be beans at all...gbas gbos everywhere.

Have you ever heard of any “fake death” or extreme survival scam in your own company? Drop your stories.